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Read ISP fellow Amin Ebrahimi Afrouzi brand new article: "Why AI shouldn’t govern us, even if it could"

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Canada needs to get serious about digital sovereignty and scrapping the DST won't help Michael Karanicolas: Mark Carney rolled over too quickly on the digital services tax, and that's a troubling sign. Keep reading here.

Read ISP Fellow Michael Karanicolas’ article in the @financialpost.com: "Canada needs to get serious about digital sovereignty – and scrapping the DST won't help."

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We’re sharing recorded talks from this past semester’s Speaker Series on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@yaleisp

Watch Prof. Gregory Day’s talk: “Antitrust’s Problem with Time,” where he discusses how antitrust often overlooks the costs of waiting.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7qZ...

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Check out YLS Senior Research Scholar and ISP Affiliated Fellow Linda Greenhouse's article in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: "The Dobbs Court"

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Check out recorded talks from our Law & Tech Speaker Series: lnkd.in/eBZ2prw7

In “Why AI Requires Rebuilding Privacy Law”, Prof. @ignaciocofone.bsky.social explains why AI demands shifting privacy law from individual control to harm prevention.

👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsQV...

YouTube video by Yale ISP Law & Tech Speaker Series: Lyrissa Lidsky

Missing ISP content over the summer? We’re sharing recorded talks from this past semester’s Law & Tech Speaker Series on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/@yaleisp

First up: watch Prof. Lyrissa Lidsky’s lecture, “Inevitable Errors: Defamation by Hallucination”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B6Y...

It was such an inspiring talk! Thank you @maryannefranks.bsky.social!!

Victory for academic freedom & LGBTQ visibility: A federal court just ordered the gov’t to repost articles by Harvard doctors removed for referencing the existence of trans patients. MFIA, ACLU & allies argued the takedown was unconstitutional censorship.

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Our Andrew Miller publishes in Yale Journal of Law & Technology:

"Invisible Allies: Algorithmic Consumer Profiling and the Rise of New Group Harms"

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The Digital Divide Meets the Quantum Divide Governments should pursue policies that aim to make the benefits of quantum technologies accessible to all, not just the Global North.

ISP fellow @karanicolas.bsky.social publishes in @justsecurity.org:

"The Digital Divide Meets the Quantum Divide" - www.justsecurity.org/111035/digit...

"Governing the Quantum Revolution" - www.justsecurity.org/111044/serie...

Read ISP fellow @tiffanycli.bsky.social's brand new article in Villanova Law Review: "Ending the AI Race: Regulatory Collaboration as Critical Counter-Narrative"

digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/vlr/vol69/is...

New publication by ISP fellow Mila Samdub!

India as the “AI Use Case Capital of the World”: Socio-Economic Development as AI Hype

casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/mila-t-s...

Another must-read new publication by ISP’s Executive Director @chinmayiarun.bsky.social in the Stanford Journal of International Law: "The Silicon Valley Effect"
👉 lnkd.in/eyyaYddC

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our annual Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference! We’re grateful to the incredible scholars, discussants, and attendees who made this past weekend such a valuable exchange of ideas on speech, technology, and democracy.

#FESC2025

At this week’s Ideas Lunch, we had the pleasure of hosting @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social’s wonderful presentation on “State Maximalism and the Federal Common Law of Interstate Relations After Dobbs!”

Thank you to Dr. Wolfgang Schulz for a magnificent presentation on “Throw Things in the Air and See What Sticks: The EU’s Approach to Regulating Platforms and AI” at this week’s Law & Tech Talk!

Don't miss tomorrow’s talk from Prof. Tobias Barrington Wolff (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School): "State Maximalism and the Federal Common Law of Interstate Relations After Dobbs"

📅 Thu., April. 17, 2025
⏰12:00-1:30 PM
📍Baker Hall 405

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Join us tomorrow for Prof. Wolfgang Schulze's (Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society) talk: "Throw things in the air and see what sticks: The EU's approach to regulating platforms and AI"

Tue., April 15 - 12:10-1:30PM - SLB 128

Cosponsored by @YJoLT

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Thank you for the insightful and thought-provoking talk!

At this week’s Ideas Lunch: @gorwa.ca on “Full Stack Governance for Malicious AI.”Thank you for a wonderful presentation!

The ISP is excited to cosponsor the Virtual Workshop on Private Law & Emerging Technology, which will take place on April 11, 18, and 25.

Register to the attend the workshop at this link:

privatelawtech.org

Join us for Prof. @Robert Gorwa's (Berlin Social Science Center) talk on: "Full Stack Governance for Malicious AI"

📅 Thu., April 10, 2025
⏰ 12:00-1:30 PM
📍Baker Hall 405

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Thank you, Ignacio, for the fascinating talk!

Read ISP fellow @akriti.bsky.social's new fascinating article: "Shapeshifting Speech - The constitutional significance of the collapse of 'public' speech on messaging platforms"

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This week’s Law & Tech Talk examined “Why AI Requires Rebuilding Privacy Law.” Thank you to @ignaciocofone.bsky.social for a magnificent presentation!

So excited to have @ignaciocofone.bsky.social (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford & Institute for Ethics in AI) talk to us tomorrow about: "Why AI Requires Rebuilding Privacy Law"

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 12:10PM-1:30PM - SLB 128

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Cosponsored by @YJoLT

At this week’s Ideas Lunch, we had the pleasure of hosting @ariezra.bsky.social’s enlightening presentation on “Challenging Technology Expertise!”

Join us for Prof. @ariezra.bsky.social's (@ucirvine.bsky.social Law) talk on: "Challenging Technology Expertise"

📅 Thu., April 3, 2025
⏰ 12:00-1:30 PM
📍Baker Hall 405

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Thank you to @greg.day for a magnificent presentation on “Antitrust’s Problem with Time” at today’s Law & Tech Talk!

Thank you to Margaret Hu for a magnificent presentation on “AI Lawfare and National Security” at this week’s Law & Tech Talk!